Roberto Cantalupo Quotes
A people cannot be happy or prosperous or respected if the state to which they belong is not strong and respected …. It is the interest of the people that their state shall be powerful and respected.
This was another of the views of the fascists that drove much of their policies and practices but are demonstrably untrue. The world has many countries that have little power or world respect and yet the people are very happy. Luxemburg, Monaco, Finland and the Baltic Countries are just a few of the counter-examples.
Roberto Cantalupo, 1891–1975, Italian Member of Parliament (Fascist Party), Undersecretary to the Ministry of Colonies, Italian Ambassador to Brazil and Spain, Italian Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt, “Fascism in Italian History”, Foreign Affairs, October 1925
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During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China. This quotation is very important because it gives us an important insight into Chinese motives and historical drivers. The first reason is something almost all countries and cultures can identify with, but the second--to avoid being looked down—was just as important. Americans are relatively uncaring what the citizens of other countries think about them, but the Chinese do. So do other nationalities and cultures like the Arabs, the Iranians, many of the South American cultures. Often it takes on a different world like “dignity” or “respect”.
L. P. Jacks
China, which had been one of the strongest and most modern nations in the world for 1000 years had lapsed into decay and though a huge nation, rich in resources, with more people than any other had been eclipsed by Japan, America and Europe. Cixi was determined to remedy that, and to a great extent started China on the road to modernization which would take over 100 years more.
